People Over Papers provides immigrant communities with real-time information, educates them on their rights and resources, and ignites awareness to build collective safety. Here at People Over Papers, we believe every person matters, despite where they are from. While our program is supported by the Pueblo Project Foundation, we know that trust is earned through action, not just our 501(c)(3) status - it is the best path forward for serving our communities. We are crowd funded by volunteers our co-founders, and our generous contributors.
Explicitly supports being added to a mobile device's launcher as a PWA.
Also has brief warnings ("Court dismissal doesn't mean you're safe"), questions to ask, what to do, and your rights.
What this is: Regular email check-ins. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
Who it's for: Activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks. Anyone who needs someone to notice if they go silent.
How it works: Choose daily or weekly pings. Click the link in the email or reply "PONG" to confirm you're okay. Miss the ping? We'll send reminders. Still no response? Your emergency contacts get alerted.
Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
Detention Watch Network imagines a world where every individual lives and moves freely and a society in which racial equity is the norm and immigration is not criminalized. The abolition of immigration detention is part and parcel of struggles against racism, xenophobia, discriminatory policing, and mass incarceration and our aims coincide with these broader struggles against racialized oppression.
This is an information resource mainly written for trans US citizens considering emigrating to another country, although we hope it is useful beyond that. Please treat this wiki as a starting point for your own research, not as an authoritative source of truth or as legal advice. Many of the authors have gone through the process themselves and want to share what they have learned.
Inspired by the USA Disappeared Tracker account on Bluesky, this dashboard visualizes people taken into ICE custody when the Trump regime demonstrated the undeniable political motive and animus to deny due process, even if charges (if they're ever filed) are eventually substantiated in a court of law.
This is a tracker of people that the US government has disappeared. Search by names, dates, states of residence, names of facilities, and transit lines.
We created this site to help keep our community informed. If you witness activity, you can submit a report through our form, contributing to a more aware and prepared community. Use our form to report activity. Your submissions help keep others informed and aware. Reports are reviewed and displayed to reflect general areas where activity has been observed. You can submit reports without creating an account. Reports come from the community, helping to keep people informed in real time.
In multiple languages.
NNIRR has gathered a list of national, state and local Immigration Hotlines. See our list below for hotlines where you can:
- report raids in your area
- seek help if being detained or at risk of being deported
- report missing migrants
We will update these as new numbers become available.
In multiple languages.
All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend themselves in many situations, such as when ICE agents go to a home.
The artwork for printing your own cards is available at the bottom of this page. These are formatted as standard 3.5” by 2” business cards. Any print or copy shop should be able to work from these files. Translated versions are designed to support monolingual immigrants translate their rights with immigration officers. We strongly recommend printing these with rounded corners and a coated finish for durability. You can also print them on your own personal printer.
In multiple languages.
Immigrants who are stopped, arrested, or detained by Immigration or other law enforcement have certain rights. But non-citizens without status must be especially careful when encountering law enforcement in the United States or at the border. If you encounter law enforcement at work, on the street, after a traffic stop, or at home, you usually have the same constitutional rights as U.S. citizens. You may have fewer rights when interacting with law enforcement agents at the border or an airport.
Disclaimer: This Know Your Rights resource provides general information. It is not legal advice. It is not tailored to your situation. Talk to an immigration lawyer for legal advice about your specific situation.
Portions of this document were adapted with permission from the National Lawyers Guild’s Know Your Rights! pamphlet.